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Knowing god without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. knowing our own wretchedness without knowing god makes for despair. knowing jesus christ strikes the balance because he shows us both god and our own wretchedness.
-Blaise Pascal
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Knowing God Without Knowing Our Own Wretchedness

Blaise Pascal
Knowing god without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. knowing our own wretchedness without knowing god makes for despair. knowing jesus christ strikes the balance because he shows us both god and our own wretchedness.
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The man who knows god but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. the man who knows his own misery but does not know god, ends in despair...the knowledge of jesus christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both god and our own misery. jesus christ is therefore a god whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
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Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of god creates pride. with it, the knowledge of god creates despair. the knowledge of christ offers a third way, because in him we find both god and our wretchedness.
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . in despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . to despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
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Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . an individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. but precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .
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